She was faced with many hard times in her life, and has grown much because of it. "I'm not sure you can understand what I am telling you. I was seventeen and this country to me was like a rare vase being carried about by a child. There was an electricity in the air. Everything seemed possible. I thought that there were thousands like us. Like Fransisco. Like Gustavo. There were not. Finally in the end it seemed there were none."(Page 233) When her family disapproved of her choice in a husband, even though she knew this was the best man she would ever meet("That night I thought long and not without dispair about what must become of me. I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if there were not something like a soul or like a spirit that is in the life of a person and which could endure and misfortune or disfigurement and yet be no less for it."(Page235)), she instead of being sympathetic towards Alejandra's choices she automatically disapproved. "Whatever my appearance may suggest, I am not a particularly old-fashioned woman. Here we live in a small world. Alejandra and I disagree strongly. Quite strongly in fact. She is much like me at that age and I seem at times to be struggling with my own past self. I was unhappy as a child for reasons that are no longer important."(Page135) The two people are similar though even with the differences in their lives. Both The Duena Alfonsa and John Grady Cole have an idealistic, almost fairytale like dream of what they wish their life to be. In a conversation with Cole, The Duena confesses to him, " By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. In all cases I refused to believe in a god that could permit such injustices as I saw in a world of his own making. I was very idealistic. Very outspoken. My parents were horrified"(Page232) In other words, The Duena, being a freethinker, felt that she should not believe in a god that allowed the world to possess great injustices like those she has seen.
Character Analysis of Horse The story "A Man Called Horse," by Dorothy M. ... In order to become free from his situation, Horse asks Pretty Calf, Greasy Hand's fifteen year old daughter, to take his courtship. ... Experiencing the loss of Pretty Calf, Horse did just this. ... "It was little enough to do for Pretty Calf, for little freedom." ... Horse truly grows all the way through his journey. ...
In his plan to successfully escape, he married pretty calf in hope that she will be the key to his freedom. ... Horse named Pretty Calf "freedom" in hope that she would be his key in achieving it. ... When pretty calf died, greasy hand emotionally entrapped him by asking Horse to stay with her as his son. ... However, when pretty calf died, Greasy Hand could no longer "afford any more lasting signs of grief". ... After all her losses, the tables had been turned and horse had then instead gained his freedom while Greasy Hand found herself trapped in every way, alone to the w...
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES Blevins was a very important character in the novel. ... He mentioned in the story that he was running away from his Step father, Even though at the beginning John and Rawlins did not like the idea of having Blevins with them, He helped them a lot during the trip since he knew how to hunt and cook, he seemed to be able to support himself and also he tried very hard to be like the other two, to look like a man and compare himself to them, because for his companions he was only a dumb kid with abilities, that made them laugh and helped them, but he wanted ...
Cowboys ride through the unknown, bonded to their horses. ... Cormac McCarthy incorporates all the dramatics that make up a great western in his novel, "All the Pretty Horses." ... "He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led nowhere at all" (254). ... He felt as if he was seeing all the beauty in the world in that moment. ... The metaphor of John morphing into the shadow of his horse proves that he feels connected to his horse. ...
In All the Pretty Horses, these themes help create a personal connection for the reader, one that is easily related to. ... His grandfather had epitomized all of his dreams of a cowboy and of his future life. ... He no longer dreamt of becoming a cowboy, but instead realized he had proved his excellence with horses and in the saddle. ... Damn if you dont look about halfway sober all of a sudden, said Rawlins. ... He abandons his horse, strips himself of all metal objects, including his pants and shirt that have metal buckles, and hides in a ditch. ...
Assignment The most vivid character in Cormac McCarthy's, "All the Pretty Horses," is the landscape itself. ... Response There is not much which can be considered tangible in Cormac McCarthy's novel, "All the Pretty Horses." ... This image of her is bewitching and the supernatural element of it is shown in the words "real horse, real rider, real land and sky and yet a dream withal." ...
The novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormic McCarthy presents us with a young mans journey through the regions of the unknown into adulthood. ... All the Pretty Horses begins with the funeral of John Grady Cole's grandfather. ... This was the beginning of all their troubles. ... In the following paragraphs I will be explaining All the Pretty Horses as a novel of choices. ... He abandons his horse, along with all his clothing, as not to have any metal on him, and hides in a ditch until the storm is over. ...
Everywhere I looked there was either a little baby miniature horse or a full grown, very pretty miniature horse. ... I got to feed all of the horses their oats for the day, and when I did that, they all fought. ... While the baby miniature horses were in training to be shown, most of all of the other horses were show quality. ... As I was on my way to look at all of the miniature horses, I didn't think they would ever be as beautiful as they were. ... Pretty amazing....
Bart, like John Grady in All the Pretty Horses, was thrown into an enigmatic situation: the cupcakes were a hazard, an arbitrary circumstance injected into Bart's sphere of existence, which was influential enough to change Bart's life, even if it was as insignificant as a tray of cupcakes diverting Bart's path across the kitchen. ... His quest, true to mythic form, is initiated by Hazard; the invocation of life-changing circumstance uprooted John Grady from his world, comprised of the ranch and the horses it sheltered. ... The hazard arrived in the form of a scrawny rapscallion ...
